The 20 Worst Jobs in Sports

Want a career in sports? You're thinking a broadcaster or physical therapist, right? Maybe you have some skills and are looking to get on a player roster. Think of the money, the fame, the thrills, the A-list party invites.

But not all the gigs out there will bring you to that fabled world where rivers flow with Gatorade.

In fact, most won't.

Click on to see what may well be the 20 most horrendous jobs in the world of sports.

20. Football Laundry Specialist

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Sorry to shock you with this tidbit, but Tom Brady does not in fact launder his own uniform.

And no, Gisele doesn't do it for him either.

So, who then? Week after week those uniforms start out as Sunday's best, but by the end of the fourth, they are covered in grass, mud, clay, blood, sweat and sometimes mildew (from the artificial turf fields).

11. Buffalo Bills Benchwarmer

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With no one else is the term benchwarmer used so literally.

These poor guys get suited up for every game and do nothing whatsoever but uphold the second law of thermodynamics, slowly achieving equilibrium with that frozen plank of wood in blizzard-prone Orchard Park, N.Y.

7. Soccer Ref

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NFL and NBA refs have it easy. So do MLB umps. Fans might express their displeasure at a call with some boos and hisses. Foot stamping, maybe. In extreme cases, snowballs or cups of beer might be lobbed a ref's way.

6. Death Zone Cleaner

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The so-called "death zone" in the upper reaches of Mt. Everest is aptly named. It's something of a frozen cemetery up there. According to an article in The Guardian, "scores of corpses preserved by the freezing temperatures remain on the mountain, some for decades."

Frozen bodies lying about probably aren't great for Everest tourism, which is a key source of revenue for the government in Nepal. So teams go up and play undertaker, bagging bodies and bringing them down to be cremated at base camp or otherwise respectfully laid to rest.

5. Golf Ball Scuba Diver

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Easy as slipping into a wetsuit and scooping up all that white gold with a big net, right?

Um, wrong. Those waters are murky. And inhabited.

Pro golf ball diver Jarret Cornell said, "The fish are kind of scary. Tilapia are bad. They feel like they're going 100 mph when they hit you and it startles you because you're all calm and all of a sudden you get slammed."

2. Yankee Stadium Custodian

Any guy who has been to a major sporting event knows that the men's rooms are not the most pleasant of places.

When dudes are bloated with beer and rushing to get back to their seats before the action starts up again, well, let's just say their aim is a little off.

Couple all those errant drops with the splattery deposits made by a handful of poor saps that had five too many Bud Lights, and throw in a few carelessly launched snot rockets, and the men's room floor resembles a Jackson Pollack work gone horribly wrong.

After the game, custodians have to mop, scrub and scrape that mess up.